Richard Garrard

Who is Richard Garrard?

Richard Garrard was the seventh Suffragan Bishop of Penrith in the modern era.

Garrard was educated at Northampton Grammar School and King's College London. Ordained in 1962 he began his career with a Curacy in Woolwich and was then successively a Chaplain at Keswick Hall College of Education, Principal of the Church ArmyTraining centre, Canon Chancellor at Southwark Cathedral, Educational Advisor to the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and finally Archdeacon of Sudbury. From 2001-2003 he was the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. A renowned author, in retirement he continues to minister as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Norwich.